DockletX
An old project started in 2006
Thursday, February 12, 2009 by Littleboy | Discussion: Sneak Previews
Not sure I'll be able to make it work properly enough (without ugly hacks) to make a public release, but that's the long-term plan 
Reply #2 Thursday, February 12, 2009 1:48 PM
Yep, it's a DesktopX plugin implementing the Docklet Host interface. Pretty much every docklet works (apart from Weather, but it's more of a stub than a docklet anyway).
- Drag&Drop isn't implemented on the DesktopX side yet, so the docklet never reveive those events.
- Weather is not working and probably never will. Harcoded in OD, tsk tsk.
- Export is not working (ie. it doesn't package the docklet with the dxpack) <- No longer called by ObjectDock anyway
- SetLabel/GetLabel update the tooltip rather than the label (not available from the plugin API)
- The default Config dialog and the image browser are not implemented
- Attention animations are not implemented
- Interaction with DX context menu could be better (I'm passing mouse messages to the Docklet when CTRL is pressed, but there are problems with context menus).
- Path to ObjectDock is hardcoded in a few places (fixable, except for one case where I will have to add special code to handle every docklet location possible).
- Some docklets that do not implement OnSave fail to load when passed an ini file & section in OnCreate
- Docklet size is hardcoded
- TodoList and the .Net SDK crash/corrupt saved data (let's say that's because I'm using more of the not-yet-implemented APIs than other docklets
)
)Plus there is probably tons of bugs (it's only a few hours of work updating/rewriting some very old code).
Gmail checking in DesktopX (kinda...) 
Reply #4 Thursday, February 12, 2009 3:05 PM
Hmmm, this all looks very interesting Littleboy. 
Reply #7 Saturday, February 21, 2009 2:33 PM
The final version is now available here.
Only ObjectDock docklets are supported at the moment. Please report non-working/crashing docklets in the skin comments (I know Weather and SysStats are not working, will try to see if DockletX can be fixed to make SysStats work in the future).
Please login to comment and/or vote for this skin.
Welcome Guest! Please take the time to register with us.
There are many great features available to you once you register, including:
- Richer content, access to many features that are disabled for guests like commenting on the forums and downloading skins.
- Access to a great community, with a massive database of many, many areas of interest.
- Access to contests & subscription offers like exclusive emails.
- It's simple, and FREE!
Reply #1 Thursday, February 12, 2009 11:27 AM
seems like you transform OD docklets to dx object/widget?
Nice if this working! ..and no chance to made dxwidgets to OD Docklets?